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Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years by Kim McNealy Sosin

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Kim Sosin’s poems look through the mist of memory to evoke the life of “all the girls she’s been,” from the danger of being a pretend wild horse on a red gravel road to the deep joy of her 10-year-old self on her spotted pony riding the plains. She takes us to secret places, through a blizzard, from golden sunsets to the blue hours to the darkness as she explores family and the meanings of love. Like the daughter peering into an old hardware store to discover the ghost of a father dancing with a broom, these tenderly nuanced poems rub away the dust to look into the mysteries and truths of the lost times.

–Meg Files, author of The Beasts

 

 

Not Quite on Grand Avenue is a rekindling of days gone by that are not quite bygones yet. In it, Kim McNealy Sosin deftly captures the spirit of a young girl as she navigates the highs and lows of childhood in a rural town. Whether on her horse, a bike, or driving with her brother on “Minimum Maintenance Roads,” many of these poems sing of freedom, but the heart of this collection resides in family ties. Each section of the book chronicles the story of a family torn apart by an “unspeakable” wrong that can only be sewn back together through devotion and the passage of time. These poems invite their reader to witness poignant moments of Sosin’s early life and the result is a collection that is honest, heartfelt, and deeply moving.

–Shyla Shehan, author of Mining the Gap

 

 

 

 

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Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years

by Kim McNealy Sosin

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Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years is a collection of deeply personal poems that take us to a small town in the 1940s and early 1950s in Nebraska as seen by a young girl negotiating her way through the cords of family, friends, and freedoms. From the raw end of innocence as a family falls apart to forging independence through exploring the countryside on a horse to rediscovering comfort in family, these poems show the joys and challenges of growing up in a home with a front yard in town and a backyard in the country.

Kim Sosin is a lifelong resident of the Midwest. She was born and raised in a small Nebraska town, and received the PhD from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is Emerita Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Kim particularly enjoys writing poetry and photographing travel and nature. Kim has published poems and photographs in journals and anthologies such as The Good Life Review, Rattle, Fine Lines, Raw Art Review, Failed Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Voices from the Plains, Sandcutters, Landscape Magazine, The Gilded Weathervane, and The Ekphrastic Review.